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a resource for our community
leaders to partner up with
Home Depot to assist the community.
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How to Write a Partner Raising Letter
Dear (Non Profit, Chamber of Commerce or Mayor's office put recipient here)
The purpose of this letter is to seek your help in identifying groups or organizations in our community that could use our help.
We are funded thru Home Depot Community Affairs Department.
We are Home Depot Volunteers who devote some of our days off to giving back to the community, We do many projects in the course of a year, from building playgrounds, handicap ramps to sprucing up a sites for schools, YMCA, YWCA, scout camps and many other organizations. The only requirement is that the group needing our help has to have the documentation listed below.
***All applying for donations must have a 501 (c) 3 status or if you are dealing with the schools, a W-9!! PLEASE WRITE ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS!! At gene.fleszar@yahoo.com
Who do you believe could use our help? We are planning for next year.
As a community leader we would like you to partner up with us.
***PLEASE REMEMBER!! We cannot donate to fund raisers, golf outings or events, auctions, silent auctions, benefits, churches, etc. I have been receiving a lot of request and I understand how hard it is say no but you must follow our guidelines please!!
Please visit our website teamdepotmichigan.org or call your local Home Depot to speak to the Team Depot Captain.
Dear (Non Profit, Chamber of Commerce or Mayor's office put recipient here)
The purpose of this letter is to seek your help in identifying groups or organizations in our community that could use our help.
We are funded thru Home Depot Community Affairs Department.
We are Home Depot Volunteers who devote some of our days off to giving back to the community, We do many projects in the course of a year, from building playgrounds, handicap ramps to sprucing up a sites for schools, YMCA, YWCA, scout camps and many other organizations. The only requirement is that the group needing our help has to have the documentation listed below.
***All applying for donations must have a 501 (c) 3 status or if you are dealing with the schools, a W-9!! PLEASE WRITE ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS!! At gene.fleszar@yahoo.com
Who do you believe could use our help? We are planning for next year.
As a community leader we would like you to partner up with us.
***PLEASE REMEMBER!! We cannot donate to fund raisers, golf outings or events, auctions, silent auctions, benefits, churches, etc. I have been receiving a lot of request and I understand how hard it is say no but you must follow our guidelines please!!
Please visit our website teamdepotmichigan.org or call your local Home Depot to speak to the Team Depot Captain.
Maximize the use of the letter.
Raising awareness
You have a letter, now the real work begins. Deciding where you will get the most return for your investment.
In our group we can only perform just are certain numbers of project in a year, mostly because of the funding. When performing this work you have to decide which contacts will produce the best results. It's nice to do good works, but it doesn't stop there, the objective is to involve the community plus receive a favorable publicity to promote future projects and drive your business to be able to promote more projects.
Who to involve first to maximizes the effect of the next letter you send. Publicity is important to motivate the volunteers involved and grow participation of those still not on board, plus to achieve a good image in the city your serving. I will start with the first letter going to a TV station Anchor Man who has close ties to the city.
When times are good it's easy to shine because financing is not an issue, in hard times stepping up is more difficult, projects commitments that can be tremendous for gaining respect from the community. No amount of money pays as well of a return as a commitment when people need it the most. When donating the funds for these projects the first benefit is that money is spent at our stores. Only the labor does not have a cost factor since it's all volunteers.
Planting seeds of community involvement is what people remember, and driving traffic to our stores raises the average ticket, when the economy is driving that ticket price down.
No amount of money spent on PR can achieve the return and respect from a community more then a group of people showing a passion for their neighbors.
You have a letter, now the real work begins. Deciding where you will get the most return for your investment.
In our group we can only perform just are certain numbers of project in a year, mostly because of the funding. When performing this work you have to decide which contacts will produce the best results. It's nice to do good works, but it doesn't stop there, the objective is to involve the community plus receive a favorable publicity to promote future projects and drive your business to be able to promote more projects.
Who to involve first to maximizes the effect of the next letter you send. Publicity is important to motivate the volunteers involved and grow participation of those still not on board, plus to achieve a good image in the city your serving. I will start with the first letter going to a TV station Anchor Man who has close ties to the city.
When times are good it's easy to shine because financing is not an issue, in hard times stepping up is more difficult, projects commitments that can be tremendous for gaining respect from the community. No amount of money pays as well of a return as a commitment when people need it the most. When donating the funds for these projects the first benefit is that money is spent at our stores. Only the labor does not have a cost factor since it's all volunteers.
Planting seeds of community involvement is what people remember, and driving traffic to our stores raises the average ticket, when the economy is driving that ticket price down.
No amount of money spent on PR can achieve the return and respect from a community more then a group of people showing a passion for their neighbors.
by genefleszar
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